Comment on First Recorded Usage of "Hacker"Comments−henning18yWardialing is over 40 years old? Learn something new every day.−_b8r018yWierd, I thought war dialing (at least by hand) came about around the time of the Strowger Switch? I read somewhere (sorry, no link) that as telephones became popular people would ring numbers sequentially to see who was at the other end.−gustavo_duarte18yIt's unclear to me exactly what's going on, but"'brute force techniques' - mass dialing until something 'interesting' is found"Sounds an awful lot like war dialing. Not sure what was on the other side though and what got done.
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Wardialing is over 40 years old? Learn something new every day.
Wierd, I thought war dialing (at least by hand) came about around the time of the Strowger Switch? I read somewhere (sorry, no link) that as telephones became popular people would ring numbers sequentially to see who was at the other end.
It's unclear to me exactly what's going on, but
"'brute force techniques' - mass dialing until something 'interesting' is found"
Sounds an awful lot like war dialing. Not sure what was on the other side though and what got done.